Attalos of Rhodes

Attalos of Rhodes ( Greek ῎Ατταλος Áttalos ) was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician. He lived in the 2nd century BC. Chr.

Attalos lived in Rhodes and was a contemporary of Hipparchus . He brought out an edition of the Phainomena des Aratos by Soloi , an astronomical didactic poem, and wrote a commentary on it.

Attalus 'work has not survived and is only known from quotations from Hipparchus, who reproduces parts of it in his own commentary on Aratos' work. Attalos tried to defend Aratos by attempting to reconcile Aratos' descriptions with reality and to resolve contradictions. For this he also used philological means. Hipparchus, however, viewed Aratos critically.

literature

Georg Knaack: Attalos 25a . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplement volume I, Stuttgart 1903, Col. 224 f.
Patrick Robiano: Attale de Rhodes. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 1, CNRS, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-222-04042-6 , p. 660

personal data
SURNAME	Attalos of Rhodes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek mathematician and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	2nd century BC Chr.